The third elephant is global commerce and foreign investment, a particularly poignant force given the new worldwide stampede for ever-dwindling natural resources.
Wyn and baritone Neal Davies were the soloists in Fauré's Requiem, with conductor Siân Edwards ensuring that, in the Libera Me, the words "Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra" – when heaven and earth are shaken – were sung with an unexpectedly poignant force by the BBC National Chorus of Wales.
Embedded within its almost 450 pages is a poignant tour de force on the vicissitudes of time — Gilbert's original theme, in short, before he attached all that baggage about Salinger-like fathers and so forth.
The next awards ceremony, in January, is likely to be a poignant farewell to a benevolent force, she added.
It was a poignant occasion for ex-Leicester favourite Lewis Moody, forced to announce his retirement this week and consigned to media duties.
Within the exuberance that spreads across the stage with centrifugal and hysterical force, they find each other in a poignant if uneasy love duet.
His work is a poignant plea against all that is inhumane in the forces that rule the world: expedience (Cinq-Mars), governments and the mob (Stello and Daphné), and the treacherous love of women ("La Colère de Samson").
Bauby's force of will led him to compose a poignant and bitterly witty memoir, dictated entirely by blinking, his eyelid being the only part of his body with which he was able to communicate.
It forced the cancellation of what was sure to be a poignant curtain call for some of the game's giants — Arnold Palmer, 80; Lee Trevino, 70; Gary Player, 74; Tom Weiskopf, 67; Peter Thomson, 80; Bob Charles, 74; and Roberto De Vicenzo, 87.
In her tour de force of resentment against Stein, swathed in yards of silky compliment to Louise Taylor, Toklas permits us a poignant glimpse of her position as the wife of a willful genius.
